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Inspirational Quotes by Peter McWilliams

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Find your horse and ride the direction it goes, a metaphor Peter McWilliams uses for choosing a path. He says heroes are imperfect and that commitment, not perfection, fuels dreams. He also reminds us that true wealth can be living without many possessions, and that we can change what we want but not everything.

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In life, we have either reasons or results

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To affirm is to make firm.

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The willingness to do creates the ability to do.

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Meditation creates more time than it takes.

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Emotion is energy in motion.

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Keep your goals away from the trolls.

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Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.

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Do we indulge our heart, or cater to our fear?

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In order to truly master the comfort zone, you have to learn to love it.

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This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictate every step toward the dream.

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For now realize that you can change anything you want, but you can't change everything you want.

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To the degree we can live without the things of this world, we are wealthy.

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Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.

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You can change anything you want. You just can't change everything you want.

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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

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People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.

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The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us let us down is because we believe those things…

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When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the…

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We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, to another-and especially yourself-I Can't, take a deep breath…

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Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement. Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create a…

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Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

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The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose to put energy into something can be remarkable. Be prepared…

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The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.

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We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold…

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Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching…

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Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. We are not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs or replace…

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Heroes became heroes flaws and all gives us hope. "You mean I don't have to be perfect to fulfill my Dream, to…

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Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.

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And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.

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If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

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Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride the horse in that direction.

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To the degree we can live without the things of this world, to that degree we are wealthy.

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In order to truly master the comfort zone, we must learn to love it.

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You can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

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For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for…

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The most recent studies, . . . both behavioral and biological, indicate one's sexual orientation is genetic, something one is born with.

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You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the…

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If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

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Worrying is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe.

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Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through.

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Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love…

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